{"id":1542,"date":"2013-02-01T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.loroparque.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2024-12-19T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T11:26:11","slug":"galapagos-turtles-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos turtles have laid eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two female Galapagos turtles (Geochelone nigra) housed in Loro Parque have laid eggs for the first time. This fact indicates that both females have reached sexual maturity and are ready for the reproduction. This is an important achievement from the environmental point of view, because they are a long living species, vulnerable and with a delayed reproduction, in zoos as well as in the wild, so the first egg laying, although not fertile, indicates a soon reproduction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxfZfDU05JI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Galapagos turtles are the largest on the planet and they can achieve a weight up to 250 kilos. Formerly they were distributed in every continent, except Australia and Antarctica, but now they are extincted on the mainland, and live only on the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, where there are different populations in various localities. The two females of Loro Parque are over 20 years old and live together with the approximately 50 years old male Tom, with whom they share an open exhibition, specially created for them, where each animal has its own cave.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1413\" src=\"\/app\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ecografia_tortuga.jpg\" alt=\"ecografia_tortuga\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usually, turtles spawn their eggs on the ground and plug up the holes for incubation, so the keepers and veterinarian team realizes a very special monitoring of the animals with frequent ultrasounds, in order to observe this reproductive stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Galapagos turtles is a threatened specie and listed as rare as a result of the hunting, the destruction of their h\u00e1bitat and the introduction of animals that compete with adult animals for food. The \u201cLonesome George\u201d, the iconic giant turtle from the island Pinta recently died without offspring, and after unsuccesful attempts to reproduce them, it was the last animal of its subspecie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two female Galapagos turtles (Geochelone nigra) housed in Loro Parque have laid eggs for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Galapagos turtles have laid eggs &#8226; Loro Parque<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The two female Galapagos turtles at Loro Parque have laid eggs, marking a milestone in their reproductive maturity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Loro Parque en redes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Loro Parque, embajada animal referente de conservaci\u00f3n y protecci\u00f3n de especies en Tenerife y el mejor zoo moderno del mundo por Tripadvisor.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Loro Parque\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/loroparque\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-01T14:11:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-19T11:26:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Logo-LP_vertical1-fondo-claro.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"870\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loro Parque\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@loroparque\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@loroparque\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Loro Parque\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2c03774d1d305dab72587f82a2fcdacf\"},\"headline\":\"Galapagos turtles have laid eggs\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-01T14:11:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-19T11:26:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\"},\"wordCount\":279,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Blog English\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.loroparque.com\/en\/galapagos-turtles-eggs\/\",\"name\":\"Galapagos turtles have laid eggs &#8226; 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